The Relationship between MEAs and WTO Rules
10 May 2004, Szentendre, Hungary
Background
Please find the Background Paper here:
English version [pdf, 87 KB, en]
Hungarian version [pdf, 176 KB, hu]
Selected Readings
MEA-WTO Rules
Brack, Duncan and Kevin Gray (2003): “Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the WTO”
Charnovitz, Steve (2003): “Expanding the MEA Mandate in the Doha Agenda”
Eckersley, Robyn (2004): “The Big Chill: The WTO and Multilateral Environmental Agreements”
Heinrich Böll Foundation (ed.) (2001): “Trade and Environment, the WTO, and MEAs - Facets of a Complex Relationship”
Hoffmann, Ulrich (2002): “Clear and Effective Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Their Compatibility with the Rules of the Multilateral Trading System”
ICTSD (2003): “Doha Round Briefing Series – Trade and Environment”
Knigge, Markus (2003): “Trade and Multilateral Environmental Agreements”
Mann, Howard and Stephen Porter (2003): “The State of Trade and Environment Law 2003 – Implications for Doha and Beyond”
Oberthür, Sebastian (2002): “Clustering of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Potentials and Limitations”
OECD (1999): “Trade measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Synthesis Report of Three Case Studies”
Stilwell, Matthew and Richard G. Tarasofsky (2001): “Towards Coherent Environmental and Economic Governance - Legal and Practical Approaches to MEA-WTO Linkages”
Tarasofsky, Richard G. and Markus Knigge (2003): “The Architecture of the Global System of Governance - The Nexus between Trade and Sustainable Development”
United Nations Environment Programme (2001): selected issues on Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Vikhlyaev, Alexey (2001): “The Use of Trade Measures for Environmental Purposes - Globally and in the EU Context”
von Moltke, Konrad (2001): “Whither MEAs? The Role of International Environmental Management in the Trade and Environment Arena”
von Moltke, Konrad (2003): “Interaction between MEAs and WTO: Information Exchange and observership status - paragraph 31 (ii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration”
WTO (2003): “Compilation of Submissions under Paragraph 31(i) of the Doha Declaration (TN/TE/S/3/Rev.1)”
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EU-Trade policy
Clark, William Roberts; Erick Duchesne and Sophie Meunier (2000): “Domestic and International Asymmetries in United States-European Union Trade Negotiations”
European Commission, DG Trade, Civil Society Dialogue
Heyvaert, Veerle (2001): “Balancing Trade and Environment in the European Union: Proportionality Substituted?”
Insausti, Mikel (2001): “Sparking the Debate on Sustainable Trade in the European Union”
Klasing, Anneke (2003): “European Trade Policy Development”
Leal-Arcas, Rafael (2003): “United We Stand, Divided we Fall - The European Community and its Member States in the WTO Forum: towards greater Cooperation on Issues of Shared Competence”
Meunier, Sophie (2000): “What Single Voice? European Institutions and EU-U.S. Trade Negotiations”
Meunier, Sophie (2003): “Trade Policy and Political Legitimacy in the European Union”
Meunier, Sophie and Kalypso Nicolaidis (1999): “Who Speaks for Europe? The Delegation of Trade Authority in the EU”
Seattle to Brussels Network
World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) (2003): “A League of Gentlemen - Who really runs EU Trade Decision Making?”
This seminar is organised by Ecologic in co-operation with the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) and the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC). The seminar is part of the programme to raise awareness of trade issues in civil society, EU DG Trade. Ecologic is member of CAT+E and SUSTRA networks.
